Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-04-30

your seed out of the ground.
A number of citizens of the county
were arrested on the Cookery farm
Wednesday at the instance Of the new
railroad authorities. Several would
not give bail and went to jail.
Thursday they were liberated by
Judge Syester.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Frostburg will probably
agitate the establishment of a reading
resort for young men.
killing Of Philip Laemmert.-
Wednesday evening shortly before 10
o'clock quite crowd of young men in
John L. Hointz's billiard hall were
startled by an alteration which arose
between Charles Mcmillan, of Borden
Shaft, and John Stewart, of this place,
The difficulty appeared to be one
adjourned from the evening before,
Mcmillan asking Stewart whether he
Thought himself as good man as he
was last night" Stewart replied affirm
atively, but expressed desire to have
no trouble. Mcmillan was aggressive,
however, and Stewart threw off his
overcoat and assumed the defensive by
reaching for balls on Il pool table.
just then q ball from McMillan's
direction flew across the room and
struck board register on the wall.
Meanwhile the proprietor, Heintz,
observing that young Mcmillan was
backed by his brother, Montgomery,
approached the latter and asked him
to ''make no racket here" He was
reproached with the suggestion that
she (Heintz) had permitted racket
the night before Montgomery push
ed Heintz back, reached for his hip
pocket, his hand swept around and a
pistol-shot rang out. A moment later,
Philip Laemmert, an unconcerned
party, rose from his seat on a box and
cried-''I'm shot Pm shot !" Laem-
inert was at once led out and taken to
DR.. Jacobs Office, where few minutes
later he died. The parties most closely
concerned got out of the way quickly,
but for some hours the excitement
among others was general and intense.
Owen England, policeman, took charge
of affairs promptly. Justice Atkinson
was informed, and II jury impaneled
as follows:
CHARLES II. WALKER, Foreman;
| John Powers, Floyd G. Atkinson,
| J. B. Oder, George Wehner,
| w. ii. Duffy, Joseph Bear,
Jethro Jeffries, Peter Payne,
| d. J. Williams John Chambers,
c. F. Nickel.
Several witnesses were heard and
the jury adjourned at 1:20 Thursday
morning to 7 the same evening, in
order to have past mortem examina-
ton made.
At the adjourned meeting DR.. c. C.
Jacobs, who made the autopsy, pro-
duced 80 calibre ball found IN
Laemmert's body, and said the wound
was sufficient to cause death. The
ball entered the neck, above clavicle,
about an inch on the left side passed
downward, backward and to the right,
severipg the sub-clavian artery, the
left bronchus, just at its origin from
the trachae, and passing through the
posterior portion of the lower lobe Of
the right lung and between the 10th
and 11th ribs, fracturing the latter,
and lodging just beneath the skin
about an inch and half to the right
Of the spinal vertebra. Found no
other wound. The deceased came to
his death by hemorrlaSe and shock.
Other witnesses were heard, in some
cases contradicting those of the even
ing before.
The jury rendered verdict to the
effect that Philip Laemmert came to
his death by a pistol-shot wound
inflicted by Montgomery Mcmillan.
Our report is mere synopsis OF the
great volume of testimony given before
the jury.
Mcmillan went to Cumberland early
next morning and surrendered to
Sheriff Houck.
Laemmert was 10 years, s months
and days old. He was known as q
quiet, unobtrusive, industrious young
man. He and Mcmillan worked in
the same mine, and there was evident
ly not the slightest hostility between
them.
The most plausible theory of the
unfortunate affair is that Laemmert
received the ball designed for John
Stewart.
The sad event is regretted profound
ly by all, probably by none more than
Mcmillan and his friends.